I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

Tony Abbott would do anything but sell his arse

I won't get into the antics of what went on then.

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

The National Party is a dying party.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The goal that proves success is to become God’s representative

Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief.

A gloomy face drives friends away

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.